Feminisms, empowerment and development
Subtitle: changing women's lives
By: edited by Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards
Series: Feminisms and development; Feminisms and development
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781780325842; 9781780325835
Subjects: Feminism; Power (Social sciences); Women in development
Description: The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights, remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances, and it provides an in-depth analysis of collective action and institutionalized mechanisms aimed at changing structural relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Negotiating empowerment / Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards; title: Legal reform, women's empowerment, and social change: the case of Egypt / Mulki al-Sharmani; title: Quotas: a pathway of political empowerment? / Ana Alice Alcantara Costa; title: Advancing women's empowerment or rolling back the gains? Peace building in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Hussaina J. Abdulla; title: Education: pathway to empowerment for Ghanaian women? / Akosua K. Darkwah; title: Paid work as a pathway of empowerment: Pakistan's lady health worker programme / Ayesha Khan; title: Steady money, state support and respect can equal women's empowerment in Egypt / Hania Sholkamy; title: Changing representations of women in Ghanaian popular music / Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Awo Mana Asiedu; title: Subversively accommodating: feminist bureaucrats and gender mainstreaming / Rosalind Eyben; title: Reciprocity, distancing, and opportunistic overtures: women's organizations negotiating legitimacy and space in Bangladesh / Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan; title: Empowerment as resistance: conceptualizing Palestinian women's empowerment / Eileen Kuttab; title: Crossroads of empowerment: the organization of women domestic workers in Brazil / Terezinha Gonçalves; title: Women's dars and the limitations of desire: the Pakistan case / Neelam Hussain; title: The power of relationships: money, love, and solidarity in a landless women's organization in rural Bangladesh / Naila Kabeer and Lopita Huq; title: Women watching television: surfing between fantasy and reality / Aanmona Priyadarshini and Samia Afroz Rahim; title: Family, households and women's empowerment through the generations in Bahia, Brazil: continuities or change? / Cecilia M.B. Sardenberg.